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17/06/2005: "GIANT CLAM and Valerie Taylor"

During the Belgian Scientific Expedition I saw this, my first giant clam. Valerie (pictured) is wearing one of her early wet suits, a black version which preceded her bright orange suit with red stockings.

The camera is a Nikonos with standard lens. This picture was taken with my similar 35mm camera with the just released 28mm lens. It was October 1967 on the Ribbon Reefs east of Cooktown. A beautiful location with numerous coral trout. At the time the prettiest reef we knew of, after months of diving.

Ron was always entheusiastic about Flinders Reef off Cape Moreton much further south, for the diversity there then, (but not now).